In the
article, "ALBANIANS IN MACEDONIA:FACTS AND FICTIONS,"
Diana Johnstone, effectively dispatches the arguments
made by the ultra-nationalist National Albanian American
Council (NAAC) regarding the alleged oppression of ethnic
Albanians in Macedonia.

Diana's
article is timely. A chorus of the usual Imperial
humanitarians is urging U.S. action to halt the usual
'rampant human rights abuses', this time in Macedonia.

While
refuting the 'intervene because they're abused' argument,
Diana seems to argue that U.S. intervention is the
result, rather than the cause, of the fight for 'Greater
Albania.'

"The
stated objective of this [NAAC] 'fact sheet' is to
get the United States to intervene along the pattern
of previous U.S. intervention in Kosovo. By
justifying the armed insurgency as a defense of
'human rights', the NAAC hopes to exert U.S. power on
behalf of the same violent Albanian nationalists to
whom NATO delivered Kosovo. "

How could the NAAC
possibly "exert U.S. power"?

Forces far more
powerful than the puny Albanian lobby do the exerting in
Washington. Washington answers to the big boys on Wall
Street, not to some small-time lobbyists with iddy-biddy
PAC money, even if they are backed up by petty gangsters.
Washington has been developing the Albanian expansionist
trump card for quite some time. Not vice
versa.

There is no reason to
believe that absent outside intrigue, Albanians would
have supported extreme secessionism for the very good
reason that it wouldn't have had a snowball's chance in
hell of succeeding.

Albanians certainly
wouldn't have launched the kind of terrorist military
campaign, so costly in Albanian lives, that has engulfed
first Kosovo and now other parts of the Balkans.

Rather, through covert
action and the most extreme external pressure, Washington
has created and nourished the secessionist movement. This
was true in the critical period of 1990-1991, when
Washington put the full weight of its economic-political
power behind violent secessionism. (An article dealing
with this period is in preparation.) It was true, as Ms.
Johnstone has pointed out, during the Kosovo Verification
Mission in 1998. It is true today. (3)

Kosovo historian
Chedomere Pralinchevich tells us that the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) has a very simple recruitment
method. They make Albanian clan leaders an offer they
cannot refuse: "Support the KLA or be butchered."
This is described in the short
version of our interview with Mr. Pralinchevich.
(4)

The forces of 'Greater
Albania,' including public relations pressure groups like
the NAAC, do not constitute some huge shepherd dog
herding dumb Washington cows. Quite the contrary.
Washington is the farmer.

Groups like the NAAC
are allowed and encouraged because they help create
public opinion favorable to Washington's strategy and
because they present the public appearance - this is very
important - that Washington is succumbing to pressure
from without. God forbid that any of Washington's critics
should figure out that Washington, functioning as the
agent of powerful financial interests based in Wall
Street, has an actual strategy.

This game of attack-Washington-for-not-doing-what-it-plans-to-do
was played in Bosnia. Absent Washington's support, the
extreme Islamist, Alijah Izetbegovic, would have been a
cipher. But even as Washington was pulling strings to
promote Mr. Izetbegovic all over the world, a charade was
acted out. 'Outraged humanitarians', such as the always
available Anthony Lewis at the 'N.Y. Times', chastised
Washington, claiming it was not doing enough, its
negligence was criminal, and so on.

In the same way, some
individuals and groups (e.g., Human Rights Watch)
chastise Washington today, claiming it has been too slow
to oppose abuses of Albanians in Macedonia, and similar
nonsense. Again, this helps create the false appearance
that Washington is resisting outside pressure to
intervene. It lends credence to the lie that the
terrorists attacking Macedonia are 'insurgents' - armed
representatives of an indigenous community driven to
rebel by unspeakable discrimination. This lie is
pervasive - even Diana Johnstone refers to the terrorist
invaders and their local accomplices as 'insurgents.'

The truth is the KLA -
or, as it calls itself when it attacks Macedonia, the NLA
- is a battalion of the U.S. Army in native dress.
Albanian Gurkas, if you will.

This is not a minor
quibble. In my view (and that of a good deal of the world)
the U.S. strategy in the Balkans is aimed at the complete
subjugation of the former Soviet Union. To that end,
violent Albanian expansionism has been fostered, just as violent
Islamism was fostered in Afghanistan, to
provide a terrorist proxy army to subdue the critical
Balkans area and turn it into a vast pool of proxy
soldiers for use in "low intensity warfare"
against the former Soviet Union. Would all these proxy
soldiers of necessity be Albanian? Not if the U.S. has
its way. The U.S. would like nothing more than to have at
its disposal an army - or at least a division - made up
of Serbs. Will the U.S. succeed in this desire? As the
Serbian population becomes increasingly hostile to the
bankrupt government the U.S. has installed in Belgrade,
the prospects for a Serb puppet army seem increasingly
poor.

In any case, what we
are witnessing is not a real fight for Greater Albania,
that is, a struggle that could lead to a powerful,
independent Albanian superstate at the expense of all
other ethnic groups. That is the appearance, to be sure,
but like so much Albanian secessionist activity since
1989, it is political theater staged to deceive ordinary
people as to what is really going on.

Behind the facade of
'Greater Albania' is a drive for world domination,
focused on the former Soviet Union, spearheaded by
Washington, with the participation of some European
junior partners. Albanians are being used. If Albanians
allow this to continue, they will be discarded when the
time comes, with terrible suffering for ordinary Albanian
people.

Kosovo shows what
Albanians can expect if they let themselves be pawns in
the U.S. drive for conquest.

Kosovo, littered by
nuclear waste from depleted uranium, preyed on by
gangsters - not because the U.S. has "delivered"
Kosovo to these gangsters, but because the U.S. finds
them useful tools. As Professor Michel Chossudovsky says:
"Gangsters make the best 'democrats.'"

Kosovo, whose growth
industry is forced prostitution to service NATO troops
and UN personnel. Kosovo with its giant U.S. military
base, Bondsteel, because the plan is to use this
strategic part of Yugoslavia as a staging area - and
therefore of course a counter-target - in the attempted U.S.
conquest of the former Soviet Union.

Will the U.S. succeed
in subduing the Balkans and conquering Russia? I don't
think so.

But as the late, great
political analyst, Sean Gervasi, remarked: In going after
the former Soviet Union, Washington is trying to
implement a 19th century colonial strategy in a twentieth
century world. The targets - the former Soviet Union and
then China - have thousands of nuclear weapons.

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